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Global Etsy Craft Party

June 19, 2010 in Brooklyn, Etsy Labs, Papercraft, community, craft, diy, etsy, events, painting, photos, screen printing | Comments

Yesterday I went to an Etsy Craft Party at their headquarters located in Brooklyn, NY. The event celebrated creativity and community not in the great city of Brooklyn, but also in many other cities all around the globe. It was a blast and I met a lot of great crafty people! There was food, music, drinks and lots of craft activities to choose from.

I spent most of my time glass painting (see octopus arms glass) which I missed at a previous Etsy Labs craft night. I also got around to screen printing my own Etsy totebag! There was also a station for making bunting and crazy party hats, which was very interesting to see. The event also happened to be Etsy’s 5th birthday so Happy Birthday Etsy!

For more photos of the event go here.

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Maribel Made Twit Finds: 4

March 30, 2009 in Papercraft, Twit Finds, art, baking, craft, diy, feature, howto, knitting, news, other art, painting, sewing, shopping, stationary | Comments

I’m now into my fifth week at Twitter and I’m up to 230 @maribelmade followers! I’m a little beyond 300 people I follow and I’ve started using TweetDeck to organize my content for the last week. I’m enjoying it so far! I’ve got a “friends” group, a “crafty friends” group and I think I’m going to make a “super crafty friends” group for the people I really want to pay close attention to. Things are still flying by pretty quickly!

I’ve made a lot of new friends in the past four weeks and I thank all these new friends for the yummy content they feed me on a regular basis. In turn, I present some of the most interesting content in a weekly blog post I call Maribel Made Twit Finds. I hope you enjoy the finds. :)

This week’s Twit Finds:

  1. Painted Egg by Carol Lambert Arts - Very beautiful traditional style oils, like my friend said. (via @DeadpanAlley )
  2. Mini Erasers by Hapa Culture -Any artist can appreciate erasers. And cute ones even more! (via @jarsofcute)
  3. Easter Cake Pops by Bakerella - Like to bake? These sweet little cake pops are perfect for any holiday.  (@gnomeangel)
  4. Brown Paper packaging Tutorial by Whosies - Great way to make your own paper packging. (@overheardatmoo)
  5. KNiiTTiiNG by Rachel Beth Egenhoefer & Kyle E. Jennings - KNiiTTiiNG on Nintendo Wii?! Game play couldn’t be much better! (via @laimee )
  6. Lab Rat knitting pattern by The Crafty Hedehog - I’ve never come across a dissected animal knitting pattern. This deserves a toast! (via @metabrew)

See you again next week!

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Maribel Made Twit Finds: 2

March 16, 2009 in Twit Finds, accessories, blog, hats, knitting, painting, sale, shopping | Comments

Wow, since I’ve started using Twitter (only a couple of weeks), I’ve made quite a lot of new friends. I thank these new friends for all the yummy content they feed me on a regular basis. In turn, I present some of this neat content to you in a weekly blog post I call Maribel Made Twit Finds. Enjoy the goodies. :)

This week’s Twit Finds:

  1. CupCake Soap by Morgan Street - I would have never thought this was a soap. It’s the most yummy soap I’ve ever seen. (via @Etsy)
  2. sharp IV painting by Frank Gonzales - These digitized like paintings are very nice! (via @BenGrace)
  3. Owls pattern by Kate Davies - I would love to try this owl pattern some day. It reminds me of a macramé owl my mom had in the 80’s. (via @craft)
  4. wolf hat by Funky City Baby- These are genius! There are other animals available. (via @Etsy)
  5. Teal and Hot Pink Half Persian 4 and 1 Necklace by MBOI - I thought this necklace was hot! Perfect for a dance night. (via @chainmaille)
  6. Jumping the 5 textured card by warpeDesign - I love repetitive things! These hand perforated cards are very well done. :) (via @daisyjanie)

See you again next week!

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Featuring Stephanie Granshaw, portrait artist

October 11, 2008 in Drawing, Uncategorized, feature, painting, sale | Comments

Having come across the work of self-taught artist Stephanie Granshaw was much like being enlighten. As a portrait artist, Stephanie focuses on the beauty of the feminine through the drawings and paintings she creates. I can’t decide which I like best, her portraits of iconic women or her paintings with gradients and strands of color. I feel very inspired every time I look at her work. She’s amazing!

Steph works with graphite, color pencils, water colors, oils and acrylics. She has art prints available for sale in various formats and she is also open to commissions.

Kate by Stephanie Granshaw

This is one from her Circles Series.

These are from her Others Series.

Beautiful Potential

One of her paintings showing floral influences…

Blossoming Strength

Drawings and paintings above belong to Stephanie Granshaw.

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Gold or Gold spray paint wall art

July 8, 2008 in diy, fair, fashion, graffiti, other art, painting | Comments

Scavenging down Brick Lane last month unattended, I paid my way into a fair called the Art Car Boot Fair. It was quite interesting and it made me think of a few things. One, people pay for the weirdest things and secondly, the art in this photograph -which I learned is made by an artist named Pure Evil (nice)!

Something about the art in the poster striked somewhere in me. It’s the wabi-sabi atmospheric vibe that I got from it, yet it was still mesmerizing and it awoke a new way of thinking…well it was this art that inspired me to create something with spray paint. “Gold or Gold” spray paint and a Picasso backdrop to be exact.

Monkey spray paint wall art

Monkey spray paint wall art

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Fruit Wallpaper No. 1

March 11, 2008 in painting | Comments

I thought of this banana pattern as I was doodling on a friend’s Facebook page. I ended up liking the design so much that I had to paint it on real canvas.

Each banana would almost be symmetrical if folded in half horizontally, but the pattern itself is not. Although, there is something about each banana rotated and suspended within a specified amount of white space that reminds me of something my mind would think of being symmetrical. This is No. 1 of 4 Fruit Wallpaper paintings to be made.

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